Building Good Tasks
for Teams
Application Activities
Are they really just
multiple-choice
questions?
Complex data, complex decisions, simple report
Jury Analogue
Concrete
Example
A patient with a Brain Stem Stroke has collapsed a lung from intractable hiccups and
feed-tube aspirates. He was admitted to intensive care to deal with the subsequent
pneumonia. A few weeks later he is moved to a regular ward and the PRN order for
Baclofen has expired (Baclofen, Gabapentin family of drugs - off label use to control
intractable hiccups). The patient has begun to hiccup again and is growing
increasingly distressed that nothing is being done. The patient’s wife has repeatedly
come to the nurse’s station demanding action. It is Friday night of a long weekend
and the doctor on call is not returning the page. The Doctor had made is very clear
to the nurses, that he is not to be called. It appears to be a doctor oversight that it
was not renewed. The wife persistently demands action and the nurse begins to cry.
The head nurse intervenes.
The head nurse should:
A. Do nothing, but continue to attempt to contact the doctor
A. Give the patient the pill and note it in the chart
B. Give the pill, chart it, and continue calling the doctor
C. Mark a pill as spoiled and leave it with the patient
Voting Cards
More Examples of
Team Task
A patient come into emergency with the following symptoms...
(ADD appropriately COMPLEX SCENARIO HERE)
A. What is the first thing you would do? And why?
B. What is the first test you would order? And why?
C. What would be the worst thing to do? And why?
Small Whiteboards
You are consulting for a new business
owner who wants to open a dry-cleaning
store in Norman, Oklahoma. Where
would you recommend locating a new
dry-cleaning business (and why)?
Push Pin in Map
The next example is from a course in earth and
ocean sciences (Jones, 2009). The image on the left
is the original data graphic provided to teams, and
the image on the right is an overlay of the
responses from two teams, each using their own
color. Teams were required to interpret the data by
identifying two linear features with lines and the
location of one additional feature with a circle.
The image on the left is the original data graphic provided to teams,
and the image on the right is an overlay of the responses from two
teams, each using their own color. Teams were required to interpret
the data by identifying two linear features with lines and the
location of one additional feature with a circle.
Stacked Overheads
Jones, 2009
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0.4
D
0.2
C
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G
0
E
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-0.4
NACA 3312
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B
C
D
E
F
G
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0
0.2
0.4
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1.2
Reporting
Numerical Position
One page summary– principles and approach and not calculations
(16 pt font or bigger)
Construction rules
for
Team Task
Knowledge from READING
Observation of new situation
Analysis of situation
Judgment
Specific Claim
From Bill Roberson
A patient with a Brain Stem Stroke has collapsed a lung from intractable hiccups and
feed-tube aspirates. He was admitted to intensive care to deal with the subsequent
pneumonia. A few weeks later he is moved to a regular ward and the PRN order for
Baclofen has expired (Baclofen, Gabapentin family of drugs - off label use to control
intractable hiccups). The patient has begun to hiccup again and is growing
increasingly distressed that nothing is being done. The patient’s wife has repeatedly
come to the nurse’s station demanding action. It is Friday night of a long weekend
and the doctor on call is not returning the page. The Doctor had made is very clear
to the nurses, that he is not to be called. It appears to be a doctor oversight that it
was not renewed. The wife persistently demands action and the nurse begins to cry.
The head nurse intervenes.
The head nurse should:
A. Do nothing, but continue to attempt to contact the doctor
A. Give the patient the pill and note it in the chart
B. Give the pill, chart it, and continue calling the doctor
C. Mark a pill as spoiled and leave it with the patient
Decisions give visible form to students
thinking and use of knowledge
Text from Bill Roberson
3 Step Writing Process
1. Identify Typical Disciplinary Thinking Challenge
2. Identify Key Concepts and Principles students
must be thinking about and using
3. Write a Scenario where students are asked to
Analyse a situation, make a Judgment and commit
to a Decision
From Bill Roberson
Your chance to
create Team
Tasks
Writing Prompt Three
Select thing
(as best, worst, most, least
from a limited set of options)
A few words about
Facilitation
Structure of Application Activities
Structure of Application Activities
Last Words